The Guns of the South: A Novel [Paperback]

"It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read."
Professor James M. McPherson
Pultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM
January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower.
Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates.
The name of the weapon is the AK-47....
Selected by the Science Fiction Book Club
A Main Selection of the Military Book ClubHarry Turtledoveis the award-winning author of the alternate-history worksThe Man with the Iron Heart, The Guns of the South,andHow Few Remain(winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); the Hot War books (Bombs Away, Fallout,andArmistice); the War That Came Early novels:Hitler’s War, West and East, The Big Switch,Coup d’Etat, Two Fronts,andLast Orders;the Worldwar saga:In the Balance, Tilting the Balance, Upsetting the Balance,andStriking the Balance;the Colonization books:Second Contact, Down to Earth,andAftershocks;the Great War epics:American Front, Walk in Hell,andBreakthroughs;the American Empire novels:Blood and Iron, The Center Cannot Hold,andVictorious Opposition;and the Settling Accounts series:Return Engagement, Drive to the East, The Grapple,andIn at the Death. Turtledove is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters—Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca—and two granddaughters, Cordelia Turtledove Katayanagi and Phoebe Quinn Turtledove Katayanagi.Headquarters
January 20, 1864
 
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